On 17/09/05, tony sarendal <dualcyclone@gmail.com> wrote:
On 17/09/05, sthaug@nethelp.no <sthaug@nethelp.no> wrote:
A collegue smartbits tested a 1GHz pc, with a full feed and 250k simoultaneons flows it managed around 250kpps. This also with freebsd and device polling. It sounds to me like a software based machine can be plenty fast with good code under the hood.
Sorry, in today's world of high-end routers 250kpps doesn't qualify as "plenty fast". Can your box do linerate Gigabit Ethernet with minimum size packets, on several ports simultaneously?
I didn't say that a 250kpps box was a high-end box. One reliable Mpps is not high-end either, but it can carry quite a lot of Mbps. What is C or M price for a reliable full feed Mpps ?
"My" high-end boxes never manage to impress me with their pps capability before I'm disapointed in their reliability.
I'll reply to myself before Steinar does =)
It sounds to me like a software based machine can be plenty fast with good code under the hood.
In my experience a datacenter pumping out 1Gbps is usually doing 200-250kpps in that direction. Considering this a box capable of around 1Mbps is "plenty fast". pps/$ would be pretty good if I could use those in real life... /Tony -- Tony Sarendal - dualcyclone@gmail.com IP/Unix -= The scorpion replied, "I couldn't help it, it's my nature" =-